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Scottish merchant and politician ( 1764-1851 ) For other people named John Gladstone , see John Gladstone ( disambiguation ) . Sir John Gladstone Bt FRSE Gladstone c. 1843-48 Member of Parliament for Lancaster In office 1818-1820 Preceded by John Fenton-Cawthorne Succeeded by John Fenton-Cawthorne Member of Parliament for Woodstock In office 1820-1826 Preceded by Sir Henry Dashwood Succeeded by Marquess of Blandford Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed In office 1826-1827 Preceded by Sir Francis Blake Succeeded by Sir Francis Blake Personal details Born John Gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 December 1764 Leith , Midlothian Died 7 December 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) Fasque House , Kincardineshire Resting place St. Andrew 's Chapel , Kincardineshire Political party Tory Spouse(s) Jane Hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) Anne MacKenzie Robertson ( m. 1801-1835 ) Children * Anne * Thomas * Robertson * John * William * Helen Parents * Thomas Gladstones ( father ) * Helen ( Nelly ) Neilson ( mother ) Sir John Gladstone , 1st Baronet , FRSE ( 11 December 1764 - 7 December 1851 ) was a Scottish merchant , slave owner and Tory politician best known for being the father of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone . Born in Leith , Midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the British colonies of Jamaica and Demerara-Essequibo ; the Demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the British Empire , was started on one of Gladstone 's plantations . The extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom , he received the largest of all compensated emancipation payments made via the Slave Compensation Act 1837 for the loss of his slaves . Gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated African freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from British India as part of the Indian indenture system . This was done by false promises , relayed through his agents , of providing them jobs , schools and medical attention . However , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . During this period , he also sat in Parliament from 1818 to 1827 . Dying in 1851 , Gladstone 's involvement in slavery heavily influenced the proslavery thought of his son during his early political career . Early life Born John Gladstones on King Street in Leith north of Edinburgh , John Gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant Thomas Gladstones , and his wife , Helen Neilson . They lived on Coalhill , at the south end of the Shore , Leith . John was the second of the family 's sixteen children . John Gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read English , a little Latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " John was apprenticed to Alexander Ogilvy , manager of the Edinburgh Roperie and Sailcloth Company ropeworks in Leith . On completing his apprenticeship in 1781 , he entered his father 's corn and flour trading and provisioning business . Thomas Gladstones was aware of the limitations of Leith , especially compared with the opportunities then opening up in Glasgow and in Liverpool . In 1784 , he sent John to the German Baltic ports to buy grain , transacting his business through an interpreter . In 1786 , he travelled to Liverpool , Manchester and London to sell his father 's corn and sulphuric acid . But the following year , with his father 's financial support , John Gladstones was determined to move to Liverpool . Once he had settled in Liverpool , Gladstones dropped the final " s " from his surname ( although this was not formally changed by royal licence until 1835 ) . Almost immediately he went into partnership with grain merchants Edgar Corrie and Jackson Bradshaw . The business of Corrie , Gladstone & Bradshaw , and the wealth of its members , soon grew very large . John Gladstone spent a year in the United States , travelling to New York , Pennsylvania , Virginia and Maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . From 1835 , under royal licence , he officially dropped the " s " at the end of his name . John Gladstone lived on Bold Street from the time he moved to Liverpool until after his first marriage in 1790 to Jane Hall , daughter of a lesser Liverpool merchant . John never travelled abroad again : but the new couple settled into Rodney Street . Jane had no children , and their marriage lasted barely six years . Although he was a devout Presbyterian , there was no Scottish church in Liverpool and Gladstone and the other Scots resident in Liverpool worshipped at Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel . In 1792 , Gladstone , William Ewart and some other Scots built a Scottish chapel on Oldham Street and the Caledonian School opposite it for the education of their children . Gladstone also had a new home built for himself at 62 Rodney Street , Liverpool , at the cost of £1,570 ( equivalent of £229,320 in 2019 ) . It was finished in September 1793 . Marriage and family In 1792 , John Gladstone married Jane Hall , the daughter of Joseph Hall , a Liverpool merchant . Her health was never good and she died in 1798 . On 29 April 1800 , he married Anne Mackenzie Robertson at St Peter 's Parish Church in Liverpool . She was the daughter of Andrew Robertson , a solicitor and Justice of the Peace and the Provost of Dingwall in Ross-shire . They had six children together : 1. Anne Mackenzie Gladstone ( 1802-1829 ) 2 . Sir Thomas Gladstone , 2nd Baronet ( 1804-1889 ) 3. Robertson Gladstone ( 1805-1875 ) 4. John Neilson Gladstone ( 1807-1863 ) 5. William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809-1898 ) 6 . Helen Jane Gladstone ( 1814-1880 ) Around 1804 , John Gladstone ceased to attend the Presbyterian church , attending the Church of England St Mark 's Church from then on with his family . The Church of Scotland had also never been to Mrs Gladstone 's liking because of the Episcopalian tradition of the Robertson family and her own strong evangelicalism . Gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the Gladstone family finally settled at Seaforth House , two years after construction had begun . A mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of Litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of Liverpool , the Seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here John Gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . In 1815 he built St Thomas 's Anglican Church at Seaforth , the rector of which , the Reverend William Rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the Gladstone boys . He also built St Andrew 's Episcopal Church in Renshaw Street , with a school attached to it for educating poor children . Business Portrait of Gladstone by Thomas Gladstones , circa 1830 . After sixteen years of operations , the partnership of Corrie , Gladstone & Bradshaw was dissolved in 1801 and its business was continued by John Gladstone under the name of John Gladstone & Company . He took his brother Robert into partnership with him in 1801 , and eventually all six of his brothers moved to Liverpool to work in various mercantile businesses . John Gladstone 's business became very extensive , having a large trade with Russia , and as sugar importers and West India merchants . In 1814 , when the monopoly of the British East India Company was broken and trade with India was opened to competition , Gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( Kingsmill ) , from Liverpool to Calcutta . He also invested in property , constructing a number of houses in Liverpool and purchasing an estate just outside the city . He made a fortune trading in corn with the United States and cotton with Brazil . Slave owner Gladstone acquired large sugar plantations in Jamaica and Demerara , and was Chairman of the West India Association . The Demerara Rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of Demerara-Essequibo ( in present-day Guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . The leader of the Demerara revolt of 1823 was Jack Gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " Success " plantation , owned by John Gladstone . He was named Gladstone in accordance with the convention of the enslaved taking the surnames of their masters . With help from his son William , Gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 with the Slave Compensation Act 1837 . Gladstone 's claim was the single largest of any recipient made by the Slave Compensation Commission and he had the largest number of slaves . His fellow Lowland Scot , James Blair made the single biggest claim for one plantation , but Gladstone 's claims were spread out over multiple plantations and were worth far more . Gladstone was associated with eleven different claims . He owned 2,508 slaves in British Guiana and Jamaica and received a £106,769 payment ( equivalent to £12,250,000 in 2023 ) . After the abolition of slavery , John Gladstone sought indentured labourers from India to work in his sugar plantations . Knowing that a number of Indians had been sent to the island of Mauritius , a British colony in the Indian Ocean , as indentured labour , Gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from India for his plantations in the West Indies in a letter dated 4 January 1836 to Messrs Gillanders , Arbuthnot & Co. of Calcutta . The conditions imposed on these indentured labourers were so appalling that they fled in numbers and the ' experiment ' was abandoned by Gladstone . Whilst trying to recruit indentured labourers , he wrote that the work in the sugar plantations was light and conditions generally good , including schools and medical attention . This was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . It ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the British and French Caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning Britons . The appalling reality of lives on the Gladstone owned plantations in Demerara is well documented . Politics Gladstone was also interested in politics . At first , he had been a Whig , but from 1812 onwards his political outlook appears to have changed due to a number of factors . In religion , he had long ceased to have any sympathy with Unitarianism or Presbyterianism . He had become alienated from the Whig and Radical circles in Liverpool and feared the disorder caused by the Napoleonic Wars . The friendships he formed with Tories George Canning and Kirkman Finlay also had a great influence on his changing political outlook , and he became a Tory . In 1812 , he presided over a meeting at Liverpool that was called to invite George Canning to represent Liverpool in the House of Commons . In 1817 , Gladstone decided to enter parliament . Although he wanted to stand for election in Liverpool , there was no vacancy , and he was obliged to explore other possibilities , including Ross-shire and Stafford , before deciding to stand for Lancaster in the general election of 1818 . At the general election of 1818 , Gladstone chose to stand for Woodstock , due to the heavy financial cost of the Lancaster constituency . He made few speeches in the House of Commons , but he was regarded as having done good work in committees and was known as one of the most informed MPs when it came to commerce . He was in favour of a qualified reform of the franchise and of Greek independence during the 1820s . When George Canning left his Liverpool seat in 1822 , Gladstone sought to be elected as his successor . However , William Huskisson was chosen instead , and this rejection by Liverpool soured Gladstone 's relationship with the city . In 1826 , he was elected as the second MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed in a hard-fought contest which he won by only six votes . In the following year , disgruntled supporters in Berwick , who had expected to profit from his election , brought an election petition against him alleging bribery , treating , and accepting illegal votes . The election committee upheld their complaints , and he was unseated on 19 March 1827 . At the 1837 general election he sought to return to parliament when he contested the Dundee seat , but he was easily defeated by the constituency 's incumbent Whig MP Sir Henry Brook Parnell , who won 663 votes to Gladstone 's 381 . Later life Fasque House Gladstone 's plaque in Leith In around 1820 John Gladstone began searching for an estate in his native Scotland , and in December 1829 he purchased the Fasque Estate in Kincardineshire from Sir Alexander Ramsay for £80,000 ( equivalent to £8,848,932 in 2019 ) . He decided to return , with his family , to Scotland . Only Robertson would remain in Liverpool to look after the business . In a sense the decision to leave Liverpool was easy , with the family attachment to Liverpool and Seaforth now much weakened following the death of Gladstone 's eldest child , Anne , in 1829 . Mrs Gladstone had never made any real connection with Liverpool , because of her shyness , her frequent illnesses and her involvement with her children . Gladstone and his family left Seaforth in 1830 , spending the next few years living in Royal Leamington Spa and Torquay seeking health for Mrs Gladstone and their daughter , Helen , before taking up residence at Fasque House in the summer of 1833 . The family spent their winters in Edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 Atholl Crescent In 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , John Gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of Leith , including St Thomas 's Church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . In 1846 Gladstone was created a baronet by the outgoing Prime Minister , Sir Robert Peel . Sir John Gladstone , 1st Baronet , of Fasque and Balfour in the County of Kincardine , died at Fasque House in December 1851 , 4 days shy of his 87th birthday , and was buried at St Andrew 's Episcopal Church at Fasque . He was succeeded by his eldest son , Sir Thomas Gladstone , 2nd Baronet . He has been described by Checkland as " a strong , vigorous and overpowering man , whose life was strewn with quarrels , great and small . " Memorials A plaque was erected in 1909 at the corner of Great Junction Street and King Street in Leith commemorating the site of the birthplace of John Gladstone . Gladstone Place on Leith Links is named in his honour as is " Gladstones " public house on Mill Lane in Leith . |
| scottish merchant [PERSON] and politician [PERSON] ( 1764-1851 ) for other people [HUMAN GROUP] named john gladstone [PERSON] , see john gladstone [PERSON] ( disambiguation [ACT] ) . sir john gladstone [PERSON] bt frse [UNKNOWN] gladstone [PERSON] c. 1843-48 member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for lancaster [PERSON] in office [PLACE] 1818-1820 preceded by john [PERSON] fenton-cawthorne succeeded by john [PERSON] fenton-cawthorne member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for woodstock [PERSON] in office [PLACE] 1820-1826 preceded by sir henry dashwood [PERSON] succeeded by marquess [PERSON] of blandford member [PERSON] of parliament [HUMAN GROUP] for berwick-upon-tweed in office [PLACE] 1826-1827 preceded by sir francis blake [PERSON] succeeded by sir francis blake personal details born john gladstones [PERSON] ( 1764-12-11) 11 december [PERIOD] 1764 leith [PLACE] , midlothian [PLACE] died 7 december [PERIOD] 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house [PLACE] , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew [PERSON] 's chapel [PERSON] , kincardineshire [PLACE] political party tory [PERSON] spouse(s) jane hall [PLACE] ( m. 1792-1798 ) anne mackenzie robertson [PERSON] ( m. 1801-1835 ) children [PERSON] * anne [PERSON] * thomas [PERSON] * robertson [PERSON] * john [PERSON] * william [PERSON] * helen parents [PERSON] * thomas gladstones [PERSON] ( father [PERSON] ) * helen [PERSON] ( nelly [PERSON] ) neilson [PERSON] ( mother [PERSON] ) sir john gladstone [PERSON] [PERSON] , 1st baronet [PERSON] , frse [UNKNOWN] ( 11 december [PERIOD] 1764 - 7 december [PERIOD] 1851 ) was a scottish merchant [PERSON] , slave owner [VEHICLE] and tory politician [PERSON] best known for being the father [PERSON] of british prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] william ewart gladstone [PERSON] [PERSON] . born in leith [PLACE] , midlothian [PLACE] , through his commercial activities [ACTIVITY] he acquired ownership [RESPONSIBILITY] over several slave plantations [QUANTITY] in the british [UNKNOWN] colonies [SEQUENCE] of jamaica [PLACE] and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion [FORCE] of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions [FORCE] in the british empire [STATE] , was started on one of gladstone [PERSON] 's plantations [QUANTITY] . the extent [PROPERTY] of his ownership [RESPONSIBILITY] of slaves [PERSON] was such that after slavery [INSTITUTION] was abolished , through the passage [VALUE] of the slavery abolition [EVENT] act 1833 by the parliament [HUMAN GROUP] of the united kingdom [PLACE] , he received the largest [PLACE] of all compensated emancipation payments [INSTANCE] made via the slave compensation [ABSTRACT ENTITY] act 1837 for the loss [PERSON] of his slaves [PERSON] . gladstone [PERSON] proceeded to expel the majority [PROPERTY] of the newly emancipated african freedmen [PERSON] from his plantations [QUANTITY] and imported large numbers [NUMBER] of indentured servants [PERSON] from british india [PLACE] as part of the indian indenture system [SYSTEM] . this was done by false promises [UNKNOWN] , relayed through his agents [TERM] , of providing them jobs [PERSON] , schools [VALUE] and medical attention [WORD] . however , upon arrival [ACT] they were paid no wages [AMOUNT] , the repayment [ACT] of their debts [ACTION] being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions [CONDITION] that continued to resemble slavery [INSTITUTION] in everything [ACTIVITY] except name [NAME] . during this period [PERIOD] , he also sat in parliament [HUMAN GROUP] from 1818 to 1827 . dying in 1851 , gladstone [PERSON] 's involvement [ACT] in slavery [INSTITUTION] heavily influenced the proslavery thought [UNKNOWN] of his son [PERSON] during his early political career [QUANTITY] . early life [EVENT] born john gladstones [PERSON] on king street [PLACE] in leith [PLACE] north of edinburgh [PLACE] , john gladstones [PERSON] was the eldest son [PERSON] of the merchant thomas gladstones [PERSON] [PERSON] , and his wife [PERSON] , helen neilson [PERSON] . they lived on coalhill [UNKNOWN] , at the south end [UNKNOWN] of the shore [LAND] , leith [PLACE] . john [PERSON] was the second [PERSON] of the family [HUMAN GROUP] 's sixteen children [PERSON] . john gladstones [PERSON] left [UNKNOWN] school [INSTITUTION] in 1777 at the age [PROPERTY] of 13 , later describing his education [EVENT] as " a very plain one - to read english [EVENT] , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole [UNKNOWN] . " john [PERSON] was apprenticed to alexander ogilvy [PERSON] , manager [PERSON] of the edinburgh roperie [PLACE] and sailcloth company [INSTITUTION] ropeworks [PERSON] in leith [PLACE] . on completing his apprenticeship [SYSTEM] in 1781 , he entered his father [PERSON] 's corn [EVENT] and flour trading [ACT] and provisioning business [ARRANGEMENT] . thomas gladstones [PERSON] was aware of the limitations [VALUE] of leith [PLACE] , especially compared with the opportunities [OPPORTUNITY] then opening up in glasgow [PLACE] and in liverpool [PLACE] . in 1784 , he sent john [PERSON] to the german baltic ports [PERSON] to buy grain [PERSON] , transacting his business [ARRANGEMENT] through an interpreter [PERSON] . in 1786 , he travelled to liverpool [PLACE] , manchester [PLACE] and london [PLACE] to sell his father [PERSON] 's corn [EVENT] and sulphuric acid [ACID] . but the following year [PERIOD] , with his father [PERSON] 's financial support [ACT] , john gladstones [PERSON] was determined to move to liverpool [PLACE] . once he had settled in liverpool [PLACE] , gladstones [PERSON] dropped the final " s " from his surname [PORTION] ( although this was not formally changed by royal licence [PERSON] until 1835 ) . almost immediately he went into partnership [PERIOD] with grain merchants edgar corrie [PERSON] and jackson bradshaw [PERSON] . the business [ARRANGEMENT] of corrie [PERSON] , gladstone [PERSON] & bradshaw [PERSON] , and the wealth [COLLECTION] of its members [PERSON] , soon grew very large . john gladstone [PERSON] spent a year [PERIOD] in the united states [PLACE] , travelling to new york [PLACE] , pennsylvania [PLACE] , virginia [PLACE] and maryland [PLACE] to purchase wheat [LIGHT] , maize [PERSON] , flax-seed , hemp [PLANT] , tobacco , timber [WOOD] , leather , turpentine [RESULT] and tar [PERSON] . from 1835 , under royal licence [PERSON] , he officially dropped the " s " at the end [UNKNOWN] of his name [NAME] . john gladstone [PERSON] lived on bold street [PLACE] from the time [PERIOD] he moved to liverpool [PLACE] until after his first marriage [RELATIONSHIP] in 1790 to jane hall [PLACE] , daughter [PERSON] of a lesser liverpool [PLACE] merchant [PERSON] . john [PERSON] never travelled abroad again : but the new couple [GROUP] settled into rodney street [PLACE] . jane [PERSON] had no children [PERSON] , and their marriage [RELATIONSHIP] lasted barely six years [PERIOD] . although he was a devout presbyterian [UNKNOWN] , there was no scottish church [PERSON] in liverpool [PLACE] and gladstone [PERSON] and the other scots resident [PERSON] in liverpool [PLACE] worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel [PERSON] . in 1792 , gladstone [PERSON] , william ewart [PERSON] and some other scots [MONEY] built a scottish chapel [PERSON] on oldham street [PLACE] and the caledonian school [INSTITUTION] opposite it for the education [EVENT] of their children [PERSON] . gladstone [PERSON] also had a new home [PLACE] built for himself at 62 rodney street [PLACE] , liverpool [PLACE] , at the cost [EVENT] of £1,570 ( equivalent [ABSTRACT ENTITY] of £229,320 in 2019 ) . it was finished in september [PERIOD] 1793 . marriage [RELATIONSHIP] and family [HUMAN GROUP] in 1792 , john gladstone [PERSON] married jane hall [PLACE] , the daughter [PERSON] of joseph hall [PLACE] , a liverpool [PLACE] merchant [PERSON] . her health [PROPERTY] was never good and she died in 1798 . on 29 april [PERIOD] 1800 , he married anne mackenzie robertson [PERSON] at st peter [PLACE] 's parish church [PERSON] in liverpool [PLACE] . she was the daughter [PERSON] of andrew robertson [PERSON] , a solicitor [PERSON] and justice [PROPERTY] of the peace [EVENT] and the provost [UNIT] of dingwall [PERSON] in ross-shire . they had six children [PERSON] together : 1. anne mackenzie gladstone [PERSON] ( 1802-1829 ) 2 . sir thomas [PERSON] gladstone [PERSON] , 2nd baronet [PERSON] ( 1804-1889 ) 3. robertson gladstone [PERSON] ( 1805-1875 ) 4. john neilson [PERSON] gladstone [PERSON] ( 1807-1863 ) 5. william ewart gladstone [PERSON] ( 1809-1898 ) 6 . helen jane [PERSON] gladstone [PERSON] ( 1814-1880 ) around 1804 , john gladstone [PERSON] ceased to attend the presbyterian church [PERSON] , attending the church [PERSON] of england st mark [PLACE] 's church [PERSON] from then on with his family [HUMAN GROUP] . the church [PERSON] of scotland [PLACE] had also never been to mrs gladstone [PERSON] 's liking because of the episcopalian tradition [ACT] of the robertson family [HUMAN GROUP] and her own strong evangelicalism [PERSON] . gladstone [PERSON] decided that he wanted to move his young family [HUMAN GROUP] away from the city centre [PLACE] , and in 1813 the gladstone family [HUMAN GROUP] finally settled at seaforth house [PLACE] , two years [PERIOD] after construction [ACT] had begun . a mansion [BUILDING] on 100 acres [NUMBER] ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh [PERSON] , four miles [COLLECTION] ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool [PLACE] , the seaforth estate [ESTATE] combined the mansion [BUILDING] , a home farm [PERSON] and a village [PLACE] of cottages [PLACE] , and here john gladstone [PERSON] could live as a landed gentleman [PERSON] . in 1815 he built st thomas [PERSON] 's anglican church [PERSON] at seaforth [PERSON] , the rector [PERSON] of which , the reverend william [PERSON] rawson [PERSON] , established a school [INSTITUTION] in the parsonage [STATE] for educating the sons [PERSON] of local gentlemen [PERSON] , including the gladstone boys [PERSON] . he also built st andrew [PLACE] 's episcopal church [PERSON] in renshaw street [PLACE] , with a school [INSTITUTION] attached to it for educating poor children [PERSON] . business portrait [PERSON] of gladstone [PERSON] by thomas gladstones [PERSON] , circa [UNKNOWN] 1830 . after sixteen years [PERIOD] of operations [ACT] , the partnership [PERIOD] of corrie [PERSON] , gladstone [PERSON] & bradshaw [PERSON] was dissolved in 1801 and its business [ARRANGEMENT] was continued by john gladstone [PERSON] under the name [NAME] of john gladstone [PERSON] & company [INSTITUTION] . he took his brother robert [PERSON] into partnership [PERIOD] with him in 1801 , and eventually all six of his brothers [PERSON] moved to liverpool [PLACE] to work [ACTIVITY] in various mercantile businesses [UNKNOWN] . john gladstone [PERSON] 's business [ARRANGEMENT] became very extensive , having a large trade [ACT] with russia [PLACE] , and as sugar importers [UNKNOWN] and west india [PLACE] merchants [PLACE] . in 1814 , when the monopoly [FUNCTION] of the british east india [PLACE] company [INSTITUTION] was broken and trade [ACT] with india [PLACE] was opened to competition [EVENT] , gladstone [PERSON] 's firm [INSTITUTION] was the first to send a private ship [SHIP] ( kingsmill [PERSON] ) , from liverpool [PLACE] to calcutta [PLACE] . he also invested in property [PROPERTY] , constructing a number [NUMBER] of houses [UNKNOWN] in liverpool [PLACE] and purchasing an estate [ESTATE] just outside the city [PLACE] . he made a fortune trading [ACT] in corn [EVENT] with the united states [PLACE] and cotton [MATERIAL] with brazil [PLACE] . slave owner gladstone [PERSON] acquired large sugar plantations [QUANTITY] in jamaica [PLACE] and demerara [UNKNOWN] , and was chairman [PERSON] of the west india [PLACE] association [INSTITUTION] . the demerara rebellion [FORCE] of 1823 , a massive slave revolt [ACT] , happened on his plantation [QUANTITY] in the colony [SEQUENCE] of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana [PLACE] ) and was brutally crushed by the army [HUMAN GROUP] and militia [FORCE] . the leader [PERSON] of the demerara revolt [ACT] of 1823 was jack gladstone [PERSON] , an enslaved man [PERSON] who worked as a cooper [PERSON] on the " success [QUALITY] " plantation [QUANTITY] , owned by john gladstone [PERSON] . he was named gladstone [PERSON] in accordance [ACT] with the convention [ACT] of the enslaved taking the surnames [PORTION] of their masters [PERSON] . with help [UNKNOWN] from his son william [PERSON] , gladstone [PERSON] was awarded a payment [INSTANCE] as a slave owner [VEHICLE] in the aftermath [PLACE] of the slavery abolition [EVENT] act [ACT] 1833 with the slave compensation act [ACT] 1837 . gladstone [PERSON] 's claim [AMOUNT] was the single largest [PLACE] of any recipient [PORTION] made by the slave compensation commission [INSTANCE] and he had the largest [PLACE] number [NUMBER] of slaves [PERSON] . his fellow lowland scot [MONEY] , james blair made the single biggest claim [AMOUNT] for one plantation [QUANTITY] , but gladstone [PERSON] 's claims [AMOUNT] were spread out over multiple plantations [QUANTITY] and were worth far more . gladstone [PERSON] was associated with eleven different claims [AMOUNT] . he owned 2,508 slaves [PERSON] in british guiana [PLACE] and jamaica [PLACE] and received a £106,769 payment [INSTANCE] ( equivalent [ABSTRACT ENTITY] to £12,250,000 in 2023 ) . after the abolition [EVENT] of slavery [INSTITUTION] , john gladstone [PERSON] sought indentured labourers [UNKNOWN] from india [PLACE] to work [ACTIVITY] in his sugar plantations [QUANTITY] . knowing that a number [NUMBER] of indians [UNKNOWN] had been sent to the island [PLACE] of mauritius [PLACE] , a british [UNKNOWN] colony [SEQUENCE] in the indian ocean [PERSON] , as indentured labour [PERSON] , gladstone [PERSON] expressed a desire [EVENT] to obtain indentured labour [PERSON] from india [PLACE] for his plantations [QUANTITY] in the west indies [PLACE] in a letter [ABILITY] dated 4 january [PERIOD] 1836 to messrs gillanders [PERSON] , arbuthnot [PERSON] & co. of calcutta [PLACE] . the conditions [CONDITION] imposed on these indentured labourers [UNKNOWN] were so appalling that they fled in numbers [NUMBER] and the ' experiment [PERIOD] ' was abandoned by gladstone [PERSON] . whilst trying to recruit indentured labourers [UNKNOWN] , he wrote that the work [ACTIVITY] in the sugar plantations [QUANTITY] was light and conditions [CONDITION] generally good , including schools [VALUE] and medical attention [WORD] . this was a picture [PICTURE] he had derived from information [INFORMATION] given by plantation managers [PERSON] , who did not communicate the routine abuse [ACT] of slaves [PERSON] nor their miserable conditions [CONDITION] of malnutrition [DEFICIENCY] , overcrowding , and overwork [STRUCTURE] . it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence [ABSTRACT ENTITY] on the reality [ESTATE] of slavery [INSTITUTION] in the british [UNKNOWN] and french caribbean [PLACE] , provided by many writers [PERSON] of the time [PERIOD] such as missionaries [PERSON] and other returning britons [UNKNOWN] . the appalling reality [ESTATE] of lives [UNKNOWN] on the gladstone [PERSON] owned plantations [QUANTITY] in demerara [UNKNOWN] is well documented . politics gladstone [PERSON] was also interested in politics [RESULT] . at first , he had been a whig [LIQUID] , but from 1812 onwards his political outlook [GROUP] appears to have changed due to a number [NUMBER] of factors [FORM] . in religion [TRUST] , he had long ceased to have any sympathy [EVENT] with unitarianism [CONCEPT] or presbyterianism [CONCEPT] . he had become alienated from the whig [LIQUID] and radical circles [PERSON] in liverpool [PLACE] and feared the disorder [PROPERTY] caused by the napoleonic wars [EVENT] . the friendships [RELATIONSHIP] he formed with tories george [PERSON] canning and kirkman finlay [PERSON] also had a great influence [ELEMENT] on his changing political outlook [GROUP] , and he became a tory [PERSON] . in 1812 , he presided over a meeting [ACTIVITY] at liverpool [PLACE] that was called to invite george [PERSON] canning to represent liverpool [PLACE] in the house [PLACE] of commons [UNKNOWN] . in 1817 , gladstone [PERSON] decided to enter parliament [HUMAN GROUP] . although he wanted to stand for election [PROCESS] in liverpool [PLACE] , there was no vacancy [QUANTITY] , and he was obliged to explore other possibilities [AGREEMENT] , including ross-shire and stafford [PERSON] , before deciding to stand for lancaster [PERSON] in the general election [PROCESS] of 1818 . at the general election [PROCESS] of 1818 , gladstone [PERSON] chose to stand for woodstock [PERSON] , due to the heavy financial cost [EVENT] of the lancaster constituency [PERSON] . he made few speeches [SPEECH] in the house [PLACE] of commons [UNKNOWN] , but he was regarded as having done good work [ACTIVITY] in committees [PERSON] and was known as one of the most informed mps [UNKNOWN] when it came to commerce [GAME] . he was in favour [PERSON] of a qualified reform [AMOUNT] of the franchise [ACT] and of greek independence [STATE] during the 1820s . when george [PERSON] canning left [UNKNOWN] his liverpool [PLACE] seat [ABSTRACT ENTITY] in 1822 , gladstone [PERSON] sought to be elected as his successor [NUMBER] . however , william huskisson [PERSON] was chosen instead , and this rejection [ACT] by liverpool [PLACE] soured gladstone [PERSON] 's relationship [RELATIONSHIP] with the city [PLACE] . in 1826 , he was elected as the second [PERSON] mp for berwick-upon-tweed in a hard-fought contest [CONDITION] which he won by only six votes [ACT] . in the following year [PERIOD] , disgruntled supporters [PERSON] in berwick [PERSON] , who had expected to profit from his election [PROCESS] , brought an election petition [ACT] against him alleging bribery [EVENT] , treating , and accepting illegal votes [ACT] . the election committee [HUMAN GROUP] upheld their complaints [ABSENCE] , and he was unseated on 19 march [PERIOD] 1827 . at the 1837 general election [PROCESS] he sought to return to parliament [HUMAN GROUP] when he contested the dundee seat [ABSTRACT ENTITY] , but he was easily defeated by the constituency [PERSON] 's incumbent whig mp sir henry brook parnell [PERSON] , who won 663 votes [ACT] to gladstone [PERSON] 's 381 . later life [EVENT] fasque house [PLACE] gladstone [PERSON] 's plaque [ACT] in leith [PLACE] in around 1820 john gladstone [PERSON] began searching for an estate [ESTATE] in his native scotland [PLACE] , and in december [PERIOD] 1829 he purchased the fasque estate [ESTATE] in kincardineshire [PLACE] from sir alexander ramsay [PERSON] for £80,000 ( equivalent [ABSTRACT ENTITY] to £8,848,932 in 2019 ) . he decided to return , with his family [HUMAN GROUP] , to scotland [PLACE] . only robertson [PERSON] would remain in liverpool [PLACE] to look after the business [ARRANGEMENT] . in a sense [UNKNOWN] the decision [DECISION] to leave liverpool [PLACE] was easy , with the family attachment [STATE] to liverpool [PLACE] and seaforth [PERSON] now much weakened following the death [EVENT] of gladstone [PERSON] 's eldest child [PERSON] , anne [PERSON] , in 1829 . mrs gladstone [PERSON] had never made any real connection [SET] with liverpool [PLACE] , because of her shyness [QUALITY] , her frequent illnesses [ILLNESS] and her involvement [ACT] with her children [PERSON] . gladstone [PERSON] and his family [HUMAN GROUP] left [UNKNOWN] seaforth [PERSON] in 1830 , spending the next few years [PERIOD] living in royal leamington spa [PERSON] and torquay [PLACE] seeking health [PROPERTY] for mrs gladstone [PERSON] and their daughter [PERSON] , helen [PERSON] , before taking up residence [PLACE] at fasque house [PLACE] in the summer [PERSON] of 1833 . the family [HUMAN GROUP] spent their winters [PERSON] in edinburgh [PLACE] at their townhouse [ROOM] at 11 atholl crescent [PERSON] in 1838 , using the wealth [COLLECTION] he had amassed from his plantations [QUANTITY] and other business ventures [STATE] , john gladstone [PERSON] paid [PERSON] for several philanthropic works [UNKNOWN] in his original home town [PLACE] of leith [PLACE] , including st thomas [PERSON] 's church [PERSON] , an adjacent manse [BUILDING] , a free school [INSTITUTION] for boys [PERSON] , a free school [INSTITUTION] for girls [EVENT] , a " house [PLACE] for female incurables [PERSON] " , and a public rose garden [PERSON] . in 1846 gladstone [PERSON] was created a baronet [PERSON] by the outgoing prime minister [HUMAN ROLE] , sir robert peel [PERSON] . sir john gladstone [PERSON] [PERSON] , 1st baronet [PERSON] , of fasque [PLACE] and balfour [PERSON] in the county [PLACE] of kincardine [UNKNOWN] , died at fasque house [PLACE] in december [PERIOD] 1851 , 4 days shy [PERSON] of his 87th birthday [GROUP] , and was buried at st andrew [PLACE] 's episcopal church [PERSON] at fasque [PLACE] . he was succeeded by his eldest son [PERSON] , sir thomas [PERSON] gladstone [PERSON] , 2nd baronet [PERSON] . he has been described by checkland [UNKNOWN] as " a strong , vigorous and overpowering man [PERSON] , whose life [EVENT] was strewn with quarrels [DISPUTE] , great and small . " memorials [UNKNOWN] a plaque [ACT] was erected in 1909 at the corner [STATE] of great junction street [PLACE] and king street [PLACE] in leith [PLACE] commemorating the site [UNKNOWN] of the birthplace [LOCATION] of john gladstone [PERSON] . gladstone [PERSON] place on leith links [PERSON] is named in his honour [UNKNOWN] as is " gladstones [PERSON] " public house [PLACE] on mill lane [PERSON] in leith [PLACE] . |
| Id | Form | Freq | Tag | Context | Error |
| 1 | gladstone | 27 | PERSON | for other people named john gladstone , see john gladstone ( disambiguation ) . | |
| 2 | liverpool | 22 | PLACE | thomas gladstones was aware of the limitations of leith , especially compared with the opportunities then opening up in glasgow and in liverpool . | |
| 3 | john gladstone | 14 | PERSON | for other people named john gladstone , see john gladstone ( disambiguation ) . | |
| 4 | leith | 9 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 5 | children | 7 | PERSON | children * anne * | |
| 6 | family | 7 | HUMAN GROUP | john was the second of the family 's sixteen children . | |
| 7 | parliament | 7 | HUMAN GROUP | member of parliament for lancaster | |
| 8 | church | 6 | PERSON | although he was a devout presbyterian , there was no scottish church in liverpool and gladstone and the other scots resident in liverpool worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel . | |
| 9 | business | 6 | ARRANGEMENT | on completing his apprenticeship in 1781 , he entered his father 's corn and flour trading and provisioning business . | |
| 10 | plantations | 6 | QUANTITY | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 11 | father | 5 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 12 | school | 5 | INSTITUTION | john gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read english , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " | |
| 13 | election | 5 | PROCESS | although he wanted to stand for election in liverpool , there was no vacancy , and he was obliged to explore other possibilities , including ross-shire and stafford , before deciding to stand for lancaster in the general election of 1818 . | |
| 14 | december | 5 | PERIOD | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 15 | slaves | 5 | PERSON | the extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the slavery abolition | |
| 16 | baronet | 5 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 17 | john | 5 | PERSON | for other people named john gladstone , see john gladstone ( disambiguation ) . | |
| 18 | slavery | 4 | INSTITUTION | the extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the slavery abolition | |
| 19 | conditions | 4 | CONDITION | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 20 | merchant | 4 | PERSON | scottish merchant and politician ( 1764-1851 ) | |
| 21 | daughter | 4 | PERSON | john gladstone lived on bold street from the time he moved to liverpool until after his first marriage in 1790 to jane hall , daughter of a lesser liverpool merchant . | |
| 22 | number | 4 | NUMBER | he also invested in property , constructing a number of houses in liverpool and purchasing an estate just outside the city . | |
| 23 | years | 4 | PERIOD | jane had no children , and their marriage lasted barely six years . | |
| 24 | house | 4 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 25 | thomas gladstones | 3 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 26 | india | 3 | PLACE | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 27 | labourers | 3 | UNKNOWN | after the abolition of slavery , john gladstone sought indentured labourers from india to work in his sugar plantations . | |
| 28 | corn | 3 | EVENT | on completing his apprenticeship in 1781 , he entered his father 's corn and flour trading and provisioning business . | |
| 29 | fasque house | 3 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 30 | son | 3 | PERSON | dying in 1851 , gladstone 's involvement in slavery heavily influenced the proslavery thought of his son during his early political career . | |
| 31 | sugar plantations | 3 | QUANTITY | slave owner gladstone acquired large sugar plantations in jamaica and demerara , and was chairman of the west india association . | |
| 32 | year | 3 | PERIOD | but the following year , with his father 's financial support , john gladstones was determined to move to liverpool . | |
| 33 | plantation | 3 | QUANTITY | the demerara rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . | |
| 34 | office | 3 | PLACE | in office 1818-1820 preceded by john fenton-cawthorne succeeded by john fenton-cawthorne member of parliament for woodstock | |
| 35 | john gladstones | 3 | PERSON | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 36 | marriage | 3 | RELATIONSHIP | john gladstone lived on bold street from the time he moved to liverpool until after his first marriage in 1790 to jane hall , daughter of a lesser liverpool merchant . | |
| 37 | jamaica | 3 | PLACE | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 38 | name | 3 | NAME | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 39 | votes | 3 | ACT | in 1826 , he was elected as the second mp for berwick-upon-tweed in a hard-fought contest which he won by only six votes . | |
| 40 | mrs gladstone | 3 | PERSON | the church of scotland had also never been to mrs gladstone 's liking because of the episcopalian tradition of the robertson family and her own strong evangelicalism . | |
| 41 | seaforth | 3 | PERSON | gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the gladstone family finally settled at seaforth house , two years after construction had begun . | |
| 42 | scotland | 3 | PLACE | the church of scotland had also never been to mrs gladstone 's liking because of the episcopalian tradition of the robertson family and her own strong evangelicalism . | |
| 43 | equivalent | 3 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | gladstone also had a new home built for himself at 62 rodney street , liverpool , at the cost of £1,570 ( equivalent of £229,320 in 2019 ) . | |
| 44 | partnership | 3 | PERIOD | almost immediately he went into partnership with grain merchants edgar corrie and jackson bradshaw . | |
| 45 | claims | 2 | AMOUNT | blair made the single biggest claim for one plantation , but gladstone 's claims were spread out over multiple plantations and were worth far more . | |
| 46 | numbers | 2 | NUMBER | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 47 | commons | 2 | UNKNOWN | in 1812 , he presided over a meeting at liverpool that was called to invite george canning to represent liverpool in the house of commons . | |
| 48 | mansion | 2 | BUILDING | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 49 | midlothian | 2 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 50 | licence | 2 | PERSON | once he had settled in liverpool , gladstones dropped the final " s " from his surname ( although this was not formally changed by royal licence until 1835 ) . | |
| 51 | ross shire | 2 | PERSON | ||
| 52 | end | 2 | UNKNOWN | they lived on coalhill , at the south end of the shore , leith . | |
| 53 | corrie | 2 | PERSON | almost immediately he went into partnership with grain merchants edgar corrie and jackson bradshaw . | |
| 54 | outlook | 2 | GROUP | at first , he had been a whig , but from 1812 onwards his political outlook appears to have changed due to a number of factors . | |
| 55 | george | 2 | PERSON | the friendships he formed with tories george canning and kirkman finlay also had a great influence on his changing political outlook , and he became a tory . | |
| 56 | anne mackenzie robertson | 2 | PERSON | anne mackenzie robertson ( m. 1801-1835 ) | |
| 57 | city | 2 | PLACE | gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the gladstone family finally settled at seaforth house , two years after construction had begun . | |
| 58 | king street | 2 | PLACE | born john gladstones on king street in leith north of edinburgh , john gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant thomas gladstones , and his wife , helen neilson . | |
| 59 | gladstones | 2 | PERSON | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 60 | owner | 2 | VEHICLE | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 61 | colony | 2 | SEQUENCE | the demerara rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . | |
| 62 | united states | 2 | PLACE | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 63 | involvement | 2 | ACT | dying in 1851 , gladstone 's involvement in slavery heavily influenced the proslavery thought of his son during his early political career . | |
| 64 | labour | 2 | PERSON | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 65 | claim | 2 | AMOUNT | gladstone 's claim was the single largest of any recipient made by the slave compensation commission and he had the largest number of slaves . | |
| 66 | chapel | 2 | PERSON | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 67 | st thomas | 2 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 68 | attention | 2 | WORD | this was done by false promises , relayed through his agents , of providing them jobs , schools and medical attention . | |
| 69 | cost | 2 | EVENT | gladstone also had a new home built for himself at 62 rodney street , liverpool , at the cost of £1,570 ( equivalent of £229,320 in 2019 ) . | |
| 70 | edinburgh | 2 | PLACE | born john gladstones on king street in leith north of edinburgh , john gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant thomas gladstones , and his wife , helen neilson . | |
| 71 | anne | 2 | PERSON | anne mackenzie robertson ( m. 1801-1835 ) | |
| 72 | sir john gladstone | 2 | PERSON | sir john gladstone bt frse gladstone c. 1843-48 | |
| 73 | st andrew | 2 | PLACE | he also built st andrew 's episcopal church in renshaw street , with a school attached to it for educating poor children . | |
| 74 | schools | 2 | VALUE | this was done by false promises , relayed through his agents , of providing them jobs , schools and medical attention . | |
| 75 | estate | 2 | ESTATE | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 76 | plaque | 2 | ACT | fasque house gladstone 's plaque in leith in around 1820 john gladstone began searching for an estate in his native scotland , and in december 1829 he purchased the fasque estate in kincardineshire from sir alexander ramsay for £80,000 ( equivalent to £8,848,932 in 2019 ) . | |
| 77 | demerara | 2 | UNKNOWN | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 78 | seat | 2 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | liverpool seat in 1822 , gladstone sought to be elected as his successor . | |
| 79 | sir thomas gladstone | 2 | PERSON | they had six children together : 1. anne mackenzie gladstone ( 1802-1829 ) 2 . sir thomas gladstone , 2nd baronet ( 1804-1889 ) 3. | |
| 80 | bradshaw | 2 | PERSON | almost immediately he went into partnership with grain merchants edgar corrie and jackson bradshaw . | |
| 81 | payment | 2 | INSTANCE | with help from his son william , gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the slavery abolition act 1833 with the slave compensation act 1837 . | |
| 82 | demerara essequibo | 2 | PLACE | ||
| 83 | wealth | 2 | COLLECTION | the business of corrie , gladstone & bradshaw , and the wealth of its members , soon grew very large . | |
| 84 | episcopal church | 2 | PERSON | he also built st andrew 's episcopal church in renshaw street , with a school attached to it for educating poor children . | |
| 85 | work | 2 | ACTIVITY | he took his brother robert into partnership with him in 1801 , and eventually all six of his brothers moved to liverpool to work in various mercantile businesses . | |
| 86 | education | 2 | EVENT | john gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read english , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " | |
| 87 | woodstock | 2 | PERSON | in office 1818-1820 preceded by john fenton-cawthorne succeeded by john fenton-cawthorne member of parliament for woodstock | |
| 88 | calcutta | 2 | PLACE | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 89 | ownership | 2 | RESPONSIBILITY | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 90 | helen | 2 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 91 | fasque | 2 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 92 | demerara rebellion | 2 | FORCE | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 93 | man | 2 | PERSON | the leader of the demerara revolt of 1823 was jack gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " success " plantation , owned by john gladstone . | |
| 94 | time | 2 | PERIOD | john gladstone lived on bold street from the time he moved to liverpool until after his first marriage in 1790 to jane hall , daughter of a lesser liverpool merchant . | |
| 95 | health | 2 | PROPERTY | her health was never good and she died in 1798 . | |
| 96 | kincardineshire | 2 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 97 | whig | 2 | LIQUID | at first , he had been a whig , but from 1812 onwards his political outlook appears to have changed due to a number of factors . | |
| 98 | rodney street | 2 | PLACE | john never travelled abroad again : but the new couple settled into rodney street . | |
| 99 | robertson | 2 | PERSON | anne mackenzie robertson ( m. 1801-1835 ) | |
| 100 | reality | 2 | ESTATE | it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the british and french caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning britons . | |
| 101 | jane hall | 2 | PLACE | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 102 | lancaster | 2 | PERSON | member of parliament for lancaster | |
| 103 | recipient | 1 | PORTION | gladstone 's claim was the single largest of any recipient made by the slave compensation commission and he had the largest number of slaves . | |
| 104 | whole | 1 | UNKNOWN | john gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read english , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " | |
| 105 | napoleonic wars | 1 | EVENT | he had become alienated from the whig and radical circles in liverpool and feared the disorder caused by the napoleonic wars . | |
| 106 | mauritius | 1 | PLACE | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 107 | politics | 1 | RESULT | politics gladstone was also interested in politics . | |
| 108 | cooper | 1 | PERSON | the leader of the demerara revolt of 1823 was jack gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " success " plantation , owned by john gladstone . | |
| 109 | scots | 1 | MONEY | although he was a devout presbyterian , there was no scottish church in liverpool and gladstone and the other scots resident in liverpool worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel . | |
| 110 | loss | 1 | PERSON | act 1837 for the loss of his slaves . | |
| 111 | west indies | 1 | PLACE | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 112 | william huskisson | 1 | PERSON | however , william huskisson was chosen instead , and this rejection by liverpool soured gladstone 's relationship with the city . | |
| 113 | monopoly | 1 | FUNCTION | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 114 | members | 1 | PERSON | the business of corrie , gladstone & bradshaw , and the wealth of its members , soon grew very large . | |
| 115 | decision | 1 | DECISION | in a sense the decision to leave liverpool was easy , with the family attachment to liverpool and seaforth now much weakened following the death of gladstone 's eldest child , anne , in 1829 . | |
| 116 | manchester | 1 | PLACE | in 1786 , he travelled to liverpool , manchester and london to sell his father 's corn and sulphuric acid . | |
| 117 | seaforth estate | 1 | ESTATE | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 118 | life born john gladstones | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 119 | competition | 1 | EVENT | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 120 | tories george | 1 | PERSON | the friendships he formed with tories george canning and kirkman finlay also had a great influence on his changing political outlook , and he became a tory . | |
| 121 | site | 1 | UNKNOWN | a plaque was erected in 1909 at the corner of great junction street and king street in leith commemorating the site of the birthplace of john gladstone . | |
| 122 | home town | 1 | PLACE | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 123 | january | 1 | PERIOD | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 124 | frse | 1 | UNKNOWN | sir john gladstone bt frse gladstone c. 1843-48 | |
| 125 | passage | 1 | VALUE | the extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the slavery abolition | |
| 126 | brothers | 1 | PERSON | he took his brother robert into partnership with him in 1801 , and eventually all six of his brothers moved to liverpool to work in various mercantile businesses . | |
| 127 | colonies | 1 | SEQUENCE | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 128 | west india merchants | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone 's business became very extensive , having a large trade with russia , and as sugar importers and west india merchants . | |
| 129 | evangelicalism | 1 | PERSON | the church of scotland had also never been to mrs gladstone 's liking because of the episcopalian tradition of the robertson family and her own strong evangelicalism . | |
| 130 | convention | 1 | ACT | he was named gladstone in accordance with the convention of the enslaved taking the surnames of their masters . | |
| 131 | jobs | 1 | PERSON | this was done by false promises , relayed through his agents , of providing them jobs , schools and medical attention . | |
| 132 | franchise | 1 | ACT | he was in favour of a qualified reform of the franchise and of greek independence during the 1820s . | |
| 133 | island | 1 | PLACE | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 134 | london | 1 | PLACE | in 1786 , he travelled to liverpool , manchester and london to sell his father 's corn and sulphuric acid . | |
| 135 | leader | 1 | PERSON | the leader of the demerara revolt of 1823 was jack gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " success " plantation , owned by john gladstone . | |
| 136 | fasque estate | 1 | ESTATE | fasque house gladstone 's plaque in leith in around 1820 john gladstone began searching for an estate in his native scotland , and in december 1829 he purchased the fasque estate in kincardineshire from sir alexander ramsay for £80,000 ( equivalent to £8,848,932 in 2019 ) . | |
| 137 | stafford | 1 | PERSON | although he wanted to stand for election in liverpool , there was no vacancy , and he was obliged to explore other possibilities , including ross-shire and stafford , before deciding to stand for lancaster in the general election of 1818 . | |
| 138 | coalhill | 1 | UNKNOWN | they lived on coalhill , at the south end of the shore , leith . | |
| 139 | grain merchants edgar corrie | 1 | PERSON | almost immediately he went into partnership with grain merchants edgar corrie and jackson bradshaw . | |
| 140 | torquay | 1 | PLACE | gladstone and his family left seaforth in 1830 , spending the next few years living in royal leamington spa and torquay seeking health for mrs gladstone and their daughter , helen , before taking up residence at fasque house in the summer of 1833 . | |
| 141 | emancipation payments | 1 | INSTANCE | act 1833 by the parliament of the united kingdom , he received the largest of all compensated emancipation payments made via the slave compensation | |
| 142 | overwork | 1 | STRUCTURE | this was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . | |
| 143 | slave compensation | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | act 1833 by the parliament of the united kingdom , he received the largest of all compensated emancipation payments made via the slave compensation | |
| 144 | lancaster constituency | 1 | PERSON | at the general election of 1818 , gladstone chose to stand for woodstock , due to the heavy financial cost of the lancaster constituency . | |
| 145 | presbyterianism | 1 | CONCEPT | in religion , he had long ceased to have any sympathy with unitarianism or presbyterianism . | |
| 146 | april | 1 | PERIOD | on 29 april 1800 , he married anne mackenzie robertson at st peter 's parish church in liverpool . | |
| 147 | support | 1 | ACT | but the following year , with his father 's financial support , john gladstones was determined to move to liverpool . | |
| 148 | birthplace | 1 | LOCATION | a plaque was erected in 1909 at the corner of great junction street and king street in leith commemorating the site of the birthplace of john gladstone . | |
| 149 | british | 1 | UNKNOWN | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 150 | john gladstone paid | 1 | PERSON | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 151 | jackson bradshaw | 1 | PERSON | almost immediately he went into partnership with grain merchants edgar corrie and jackson bradshaw . | |
| 152 | quarrels | 1 | DISPUTE | he has been described by checkland as " a strong , vigorous and overpowering man , whose life was strewn with quarrels , great and small . " memorials | |
| 153 | firm | 1 | INSTITUTION | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 154 | gentlemen | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 155 | great junction street | 1 | PLACE | a plaque was erected in 1909 at the corner of great junction street and king street in leith commemorating the site of the birthplace of john gladstone . | |
| 156 | indian ocean | 1 | PERSON | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 157 | arbuthnot | 1 | PERSON | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 158 | john neilson gladstone | 1 | PERSON | robertson gladstone ( 1805-1875 ) 4. john neilson gladstone ( 1807-1863 ) 5. william ewart gladstone ( 1809-1898 ) 6 . | |
| 159 | turpentine | 1 | RESULT | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 160 | anne mackenzie gladstone | 1 | PERSON | they had six children together : 1. anne mackenzie gladstone ( 1802-1829 ) 2 . sir thomas gladstone , 2nd baronet ( 1804-1889 ) 3. | |
| 161 | revolt | 1 | ACT | the demerara rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . | |
| 162 | relationship | 1 | RELATIONSHIP | however , william huskisson was chosen instead , and this rejection by liverpool soured gladstone 's relationship with the city . | |
| 163 | majority | 1 | PROPERTY | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 164 | county | 1 | PLACE | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , of fasque and balfour in the county of kincardine , died at fasque house in december 1851 , 4 days shy of his 87th birthday , and was buried at st andrew 's episcopal church at fasque . | |
| 165 | politician | 1 | PERSON | scottish merchant and politician ( 1764-1851 ) | |
| 166 | whig mp sir henry brook parnell | 1 | PERSON | at the 1837 general election he sought to return to parliament when he contested the dundee seat , but he was easily defeated by the constituency 's incumbent whig mp sir henry brook parnell , who won 663 votes to gladstone 's 381 . | |
| 167 | construction | 1 | ACT | gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the gladstone family finally settled at seaforth house , two years after construction had begun . | |
| 168 | second | 1 | PERSON | john was the second of the family 's sixteen children . | |
| 169 | shyness | 1 | QUALITY | mrs gladstone had never made any real connection with liverpool , because of her shyness , her frequent illnesses and her involvement with her children . | |
| 170 | flax seed | 1 | EVENT | ||
| 171 | rejection | 1 | ACT | however , william huskisson was chosen instead , and this rejection by liverpool soured gladstone 's relationship with the city . | |
| 172 | village | 1 | PLACE | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 173 | united kingdom | 1 | PLACE | act 1833 by the parliament of the united kingdom , he received the largest of all compensated emancipation payments made via the slave compensation | |
| 174 | surnames | 1 | PORTION | he was named gladstone in accordance with the convention of the enslaved taking the surnames of their masters . | |
| 175 | favour | 1 | PERSON | he was in favour of a qualified reform of the franchise and of greek independence during the 1820s . | |
| 176 | successor | 1 | NUMBER | liverpool seat in 1822 , gladstone sought to be elected as his successor . | |
| 177 | slave plantations | 1 | QUANTITY | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 178 | march | 1 | PERIOD | the election committee upheld their complaints , and he was unseated on 19 march 1827 . | |
| 179 | balfour | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , of fasque and balfour in the county of kincardine , died at fasque house in december 1851 , 4 days shy of his 87th birthday , and was buried at st andrew 's episcopal church at fasque . | |
| 180 | merchant thomas gladstones | 1 | PERSON | born john gladstones on king street in leith north of edinburgh , john gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant thomas gladstones , and his wife , helen neilson . | |
| 181 | william ewart | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 182 | picture | 1 | PICTURE | this was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . | |
| 183 | winters | 1 | PERSON | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 184 | letter | 1 | ABILITY | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 185 | importers | 1 | UNKNOWN | john gladstone 's business became very extensive , having a large trade with russia , and as sugar importers and west india merchants . | |
| 186 | vacancy | 1 | QUANTITY | although he wanted to stand for election in liverpool , there was no vacancy , and he was obliged to explore other possibilities , including ross-shire and stafford , before deciding to stand for lancaster in the general election of 1818 . | |
| 187 | kirkman finlay | 1 | PERSON | the friendships he formed with tories george canning and kirkman finlay also had a great influence on his changing political outlook , and he became a tory . | |
| 188 | shore | 1 | LAND | they lived on coalhill , at the south end of the shore , leith . | |
| 189 | helen jane gladstone | 1 | PERSON | helen jane gladstone ( 1814-1880 ) around 1804 , john gladstone ceased to attend the presbyterian church , attending the church of england st mark 's church from then on with his family . | |
| 190 | miles | 1 | COLLECTION | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 191 | litherland marsh | 1 | PERSON | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 192 | glasgow | 1 | PLACE | thomas gladstones was aware of the limitations of leith , especially compared with the opportunities then opening up in glasgow and in liverpool . | |
| 193 | career | 1 | QUANTITY | dying in 1851 , gladstone 's involvement in slavery heavily influenced the proslavery thought of his son during his early political career . | |
| 194 | dingwall | 1 | PERSON | she was the daughter of andrew robertson , a solicitor and justice of the peace and the provost of dingwall in ross-shire . | |
| 195 | circa | 1 | UNKNOWN | business portrait of gladstone by thomas gladstones , circa 1830 . | |
| 196 | agents | 1 | TERM | this was done by false promises , relayed through his agents , of providing them jobs , schools and medical attention . | |
| 197 | brother robert | 1 | PERSON | he took his brother robert into partnership with him in 1801 , and eventually all six of his brothers moved to liverpool to work in various mercantile businesses . | |
| 198 | marquess | 1 | PERSON | preceded by sir henry dashwood succeeded by marquess of blandford member of parliament for berwick-upon-tweed | |
| 199 | messrs gillanders | 1 | PERSON | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 200 | royal leamington spa | 1 | PERSON | gladstone and his family left seaforth in 1830 , spending the next few years living in royal leamington spa and torquay seeking health for mrs gladstone and their daughter , helen , before taking up residence at fasque house in the summer of 1833 . | |
| 201 | william ewart gladstone | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 202 | success | 1 | QUALITY | the leader of the demerara revolt of 1823 was jack gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " success " plantation , owned by john gladstone . | |
| 203 | honour | 1 | UNKNOWN | place on leith links is named in his honour as is " gladstones " public house on mill lane in leith . | |
| 204 | friendships | 1 | RELATIONSHIP | the friendships he formed with tories george canning and kirkman finlay also had a great influence on his changing political outlook , and he became a tory . | |
| 205 | sailcloth company ropeworks | 1 | PERSON | john was apprenticed to alexander ogilvy , manager of the edinburgh roperie and sailcloth company ropeworks in leith . | |
| 206 | maize | 1 | PERSON | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 207 | son william | 1 | PERSON | with help from his son william , gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the slavery abolition act 1833 with the slave compensation act 1837 . | |
| 208 | business ventures | 1 | STATE | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 209 | supporters | 1 | PERSON | in the following year , disgruntled supporters in berwick , who had expected to profit from his election , brought an election petition against him alleging bribery , treating , and accepting illegal votes . | |
| 210 | england st mark | 1 | PLACE | helen jane gladstone ( 1814-1880 ) around 1804 , john gladstone ceased to attend the presbyterian church , attending the church of england st mark 's church from then on with his family . | |
| 211 | couple | 1 | GROUP | john never travelled abroad again : but the new couple settled into rodney street . | |
| 212 | british east india company | 1 | INSTITUTION | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 213 | kincardineshire resting place st. andrew | 1 | PERSON | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 214 | william | 1 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 215 | neilson | 1 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 216 | people | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | for other people named john gladstone , see john gladstone ( disambiguation ) . | |
| 217 | sir francis blake | 1 | PERSON | in office 1826-1827 preceded by sir francis blake succeeded by sir francis | |
| 218 | apprenticeship | 1 | SYSTEM | on completing his apprenticeship in 1781 , he entered his father 's corn and flour trading and provisioning business . | |
| 219 | party tory spouse s jane hall | 1 | PLACE | ||
| 220 | debts | 1 | ACTION | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 221 | tar | 1 | PERSON | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 222 | sir alexander ramsay | 1 | PERSON | fasque house gladstone 's plaque in leith in around 1820 john gladstone began searching for an estate in his native scotland , and in december 1829 he purchased the fasque estate in kincardineshire from sir alexander ramsay for £80,000 ( equivalent to £8,848,932 in 2019 ) . | |
| 223 | british empire | 1 | STATE | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 224 | sir john gladstone bt frse gladstone | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone bt frse gladstone c. 1843-48 | |
| 225 | renshaw street unitarian chapel | 1 | PERSON | although he was a devout presbyterian , there was no scottish church in liverpool and gladstone and the other scots resident in liverpool worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel . | |
| 226 | acres | 1 | NUMBER | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 227 | trade | 1 | ACT | john gladstone 's business became very extensive , having a large trade with russia , and as sugar importers and west india merchants . | |
| 228 | gentleman | 1 | PERSON | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 229 | corner | 1 | STATE | a plaque was erected in 1909 at the corner of great junction street and king street in leith commemorating the site of the birthplace of john gladstone . | |
| 230 | limitations | 1 | VALUE | thomas gladstones was aware of the limitations of leith , especially compared with the opportunities then opening up in glasgow and in liverpool . | |
| 231 | aftermath | 1 | PLACE | with help from his son william , gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the slavery abolition act 1833 with the slave compensation act 1837 . | |
| 232 | british guiana | 1 | PLACE | he owned 2,508 slaves in british guiana and jamaica and received a £106,769 payment ( equivalent to £12,250,000 in 2023 ) . | |
| 233 | robertson family | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | the church of scotland had also never been to mrs gladstone 's liking because of the episcopalian tradition of the robertson family and her own strong evangelicalism . | |
| 234 | memorials | 1 | UNKNOWN | he has been described by checkland as " a strong , vigorous and overpowering man , whose life was strewn with quarrels , great and small . " memorials | |
| 235 | disorder | 1 | PROPERTY | he had become alienated from the whig and radical circles in liverpool and feared the disorder caused by the napoleonic wars . | |
| 236 | age | 1 | PROPERTY | john gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read english , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " | |
| 237 | andrew robertson | 1 | PERSON | she was the daughter of andrew robertson , a solicitor and justice of the peace and the provost of dingwall in ross-shire . | |
| 238 | maryland | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 239 | sympathy | 1 | EVENT | in religion , he had long ceased to have any sympathy with unitarianism or presbyterianism . | |
| 240 | commerce | 1 | GAME | he made few speeches in the house of commons , but he was regarded as having done good work in committees and was known as one of the most informed mps when it came to commerce . | |
| 241 | indians | 1 | UNKNOWN | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 242 | abuse | 1 | ACT | this was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . | |
| 243 | ship | 1 | SHIP | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 244 | alexander ogilvy | 1 | PERSON | john was apprenticed to alexander ogilvy , manager of the edinburgh roperie and sailcloth company ropeworks in leith . | |
| 245 | contest | 1 | CONDITION | in 1826 , he was elected as the second mp for berwick-upon-tweed in a hard-fought contest which he won by only six votes . | |
| 246 | meeting | 1 | ACTIVITY | in 1812 , he presided over a meeting at liverpool that was called to invite george canning to represent liverpool in the house of commons . | |
| 247 | hemp | 1 | PLANT | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 248 | days shy | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , of fasque and balfour in the county of kincardine , died at fasque house in december 1851 , 4 days shy of his 87th birthday , and was buried at st andrew 's episcopal church at fasque . | |
| 249 | home farm | 1 | PERSON | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 250 | peace | 1 | EVENT | she was the daughter of andrew robertson , a solicitor and justice of the peace and the provost of dingwall in ross-shire . | |
| 251 | wife | 1 | PERSON | born john gladstones on king street in leith north of edinburgh , john gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant thomas gladstones , and his wife , helen neilson . | |
| 252 | militia | 1 | FORCE | the demerara rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . | |
| 253 | edinburgh roperie | 1 | PLACE | john was apprenticed to alexander ogilvy , manager of the edinburgh roperie and sailcloth company ropeworks in leith . | |
| 254 | townhouse | 1 | ROOM | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 255 | blandford member | 1 | PERSON | preceded by sir henry dashwood succeeded by marquess of blandford member of parliament for berwick-upon-tweed | |
| 256 | possibilities | 1 | AGREEMENT | although he wanted to stand for election in liverpool , there was no vacancy , and he was obliged to explore other possibilities , including ross-shire and stafford , before deciding to stand for lancaster in the general election of 1818 . | |
| 257 | manager | 1 | PERSON | john was apprenticed to alexander ogilvy , manager of the edinburgh roperie and sailcloth company ropeworks in leith . | |
| 258 | constituency | 1 | PERSON | at the general election of 1818 , gladstone chose to stand for woodstock , due to the heavy financial cost of the lancaster constituency . | |
| 259 | religion | 1 | TRUST | in religion , he had long ceased to have any sympathy with unitarianism or presbyterianism . | |
| 260 | guyana | 1 | PLACE | the demerara rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . | |
| 261 | missionaries | 1 | PERSON | it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the british and french caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning britons . | |
| 262 | houses | 1 | UNKNOWN | he also invested in property , constructing a number of houses in liverpool and purchasing an estate just outside the city . | |
| 263 | left | 1 | UNKNOWN | john gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read english , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " | |
| 264 | everything | 1 | ACTIVITY | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 265 | illnesses | 1 | ILLNESS | mrs gladstone had never made any real connection with liverpool , because of her shyness , her frequent illnesses and her involvement with her children . | |
| 266 | african freedmen | 1 | PERSON | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 267 | disambiguation | 1 | ACT | for other people named john gladstone , see john gladstone ( disambiguation ) . | |
| 268 | pennsylvania | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 269 | devout presbyterian | 1 | UNKNOWN | although he was a devout presbyterian , there was no scottish church in liverpool and gladstone and the other scots resident in liverpool worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel . | |
| 270 | accordance | 1 | ACT | he was named gladstone in accordance with the convention of the enslaved taking the surnames of their masters . | |
| 271 | timber | 1 | WOOD | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 272 | john fenton cawthorne | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 273 | business portrait | 1 | PERSON | business portrait of gladstone by thomas gladstones , circa 1830 . | |
| 274 | girls | 1 | EVENT | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 275 | oldham street | 1 | PLACE | in 1792 , gladstone , william ewart and some other scots built a scottish chapel on oldham street and the caledonian school opposite it for the education of their children . | |
| 276 | experiment | 1 | PERIOD | the conditions imposed on these indentured labourers were so appalling that they fled in numbers and the ' experiment ' was abandoned by gladstone . | |
| 277 | cottages | 1 | PLACE | a mansion on 100 acres ( 0.40 km^2 ) of litherland marsh , four miles ( 6 km ) north-northwest of liverpool , the seaforth estate combined the mansion , a home farm and a village of cottages , and here john gladstone could live as a landed gentleman . | |
| 278 | factors | 1 | FORM | at first , he had been a whig , but from 1812 onwards his political outlook appears to have changed due to a number of factors . | |
| 279 | british prime minister william ewart gladstone | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 280 | solicitor | 1 | PERSON | she was the daughter of andrew robertson , a solicitor and justice of the peace and the provost of dingwall in ross-shire . | |
| 281 | britons | 1 | UNKNOWN | it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the british and french caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning britons . | |
| 282 | extent | 1 | PROPERTY | the extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the slavery abolition | |
| 283 | home | 1 | PLACE | gladstone also had a new home built for himself at 62 rodney street , liverpool , at the cost of £1,570 ( equivalent of £229,320 in 2019 ) . | |
| 284 | grain | 1 | PERSON | john to the german baltic ports to buy grain , transacting his business through an interpreter . | |
| 285 | largest | 1 | PLACE | act 1833 by the parliament of the united kingdom , he received the largest of all compensated emancipation payments made via the slave compensation | |
| 286 | chairman | 1 | PERSON | slave owner gladstone acquired large sugar plantations in jamaica and demerara , and was chairman of the west india association . | |
| 287 | owner gladstone | 1 | PERSON | slave owner gladstone acquired large sugar plantations in jamaica and demerara , and was chairman of the west india association . | |
| 288 | evidence | 1 | ABSTRACT ENTITY | it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the british and french caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning britons . | |
| 289 | berwick upon tweed | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 290 | death | 1 | EVENT | in a sense the decision to leave liverpool was easy , with the family attachment to liverpool and seaforth now much weakened following the death of gladstone 's eldest child , anne , in 1829 . | |
| 291 | thomas | 1 | PERSON | thomas * | |
| 292 | john fenton cawthorne member | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 293 | interpreter | 1 | PERSON | john to the german baltic ports to buy grain , transacting his business through an interpreter . | |
| 294 | english | 1 | EVENT | john gladstones left school in 1777 at the age of 13 , later describing his education as " a very plain one - to read english , a little latin , writing and figures comprehending the whole . " | |
| 295 | abolition | 1 | EVENT | the extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the slavery abolition | |
| 296 | independence | 1 | STATE | he was in favour of a qualified reform of the franchise and of greek independence during the 1820s . | |
| 297 | september | 1 | PERIOD | it was finished in september 1793 . | |
| 298 | mercantile businesses | 1 | UNKNOWN | he took his brother robert into partnership with him in 1801 , and eventually all six of his brothers moved to liverpool to work in various mercantile businesses . | |
| 299 | writers | 1 | PERSON | it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the british and french caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning britons . | |
| 300 | virginia | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 301 | mps | 1 | UNKNOWN | he made few speeches in the house of commons , but he was regarded as having done good work in committees and was known as one of the most informed mps when it came to commerce . | |
| 302 | mother | 1 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 303 | provost | 1 | UNIT | she was the daughter of andrew robertson , a solicitor and justice of the peace and the provost of dingwall in ross-shire . | |
| 304 | army | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | the demerara rebellion of 1823 , a massive slave revolt , happened on his plantation in the colony of demerara-essequibo ( in present-day guyana ) and was brutally crushed by the army and militia . | |
| 305 | family attachment | 1 | STATE | in a sense the decision to leave liverpool was easy , with the family attachment to liverpool and seaforth now much weakened following the death of gladstone 's eldest child , anne , in 1829 . | |
| 306 | sir henry dashwood | 1 | PERSON | preceded by sir henry dashwood succeeded by marquess of blandford member of parliament for berwick-upon-tweed | |
| 307 | sir francis blake personal details born john gladstones | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 308 | child | 1 | PERSON | in a sense the decision to leave liverpool was easy , with the family attachment to liverpool and seaforth now much weakened following the death of gladstone 's eldest child , anne , in 1829 . | |
| 309 | surname | 1 | PORTION | once he had settled in liverpool , gladstones dropped the final " s " from his surname ( although this was not formally changed by royal licence until 1835 ) . | |
| 310 | malnutrition | 1 | DEFICIENCY | this was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . | |
| 311 | radical circles | 1 | PERSON | he had become alienated from the whig and radical circles in liverpool and feared the disorder caused by the napoleonic wars . | |
| 312 | arrival | 1 | ACT | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 313 | residence | 1 | PLACE | gladstone and his family left seaforth in 1830 , spending the next few years living in royal leamington spa and torquay seeking health for mrs gladstone and their daughter , helen , before taking up residence at fasque house in the summer of 1833 . | |
| 314 | brazil | 1 | PLACE | he made a fortune trading in corn with the united states and cotton with brazil . | |
| 315 | rose garden | 1 | PERSON | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 316 | french caribbean | 1 | PLACE | it ignored the comprehensive and damning evidence on the reality of slavery in the british and french caribbean , provided by many writers of the time such as missionaries and other returning britons . | |
| 317 | bold street | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone lived on bold street from the time he moved to liverpool until after his first marriage in 1790 to jane hall , daughter of a lesser liverpool merchant . | |
| 318 | thought | 1 | UNKNOWN | dying in 1851 , gladstone 's involvement in slavery heavily influenced the proslavery thought of his son during his early political career . | |
| 319 | gladstone boys | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 320 | scots resident | 1 | PERSON | although he was a devout presbyterian , there was no scottish church in liverpool and gladstone and the other scots resident in liverpool worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel . | |
| 321 | rector | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 322 | baltic ports | 1 | PERSON | john to the german baltic ports to buy grain , transacting his business through an interpreter . | |
| 323 | life | 1 | EVENT | early life | |
| 324 | anglican church | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 325 | trading | 1 | ACT | on completing his apprenticeship in 1781 , he entered his father 's corn and flour trading and provisioning business . | |
| 326 | reform | 1 | AMOUNT | he was in favour of a qualified reform of the franchise and of greek independence during the 1820s . | |
| 327 | unitarianism | 1 | CONCEPT | in religion , he had long ceased to have any sympathy with unitarianism or presbyterianism . | |
| 328 | renshaw street | 1 | PLACE | although he was a devout presbyterian , there was no scottish church in liverpool and gladstone and the other scots resident in liverpool worshipped at renshaw street unitarian chapel . | |
| 329 | wheat | 1 | LIGHT | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 330 | help | 1 | UNKNOWN | with help from his son william , gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the slavery abolition act 1833 with the slave compensation act 1837 . | |
| 331 | seaforth house | 1 | PLACE | gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the gladstone family finally settled at seaforth house , two years after construction had begun . | |
| 332 | speeches | 1 | SPEECH | he made few speeches in the house of commons , but he was regarded as having done good work in committees and was known as one of the most informed mps when it came to commerce . | |
| 333 | indenture system | 1 | SYSTEM | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 334 | kingsmill | 1 | PERSON | in 1814 , when the monopoly of the british east india company was broken and trade with india was opened to competition , gladstone 's firm was the first to send a private ship ( kingsmill ) , from liverpool to calcutta . | |
| 335 | sense | 1 | UNKNOWN | in a sense the decision to leave liverpool was easy , with the family attachment to liverpool and seaforth now much weakened following the death of gladstone 's eldest child , anne , in 1829 . | |
| 336 | gladstone family | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the gladstone family finally settled at seaforth house , two years after construction had begun . | |
| 337 | influence | 1 | ELEMENT | the friendships he formed with tories george canning and kirkman finlay also had a great influence on his changing political outlook , and he became a tory . | |
| 338 | opportunities | 1 | OPPORTUNITY | thomas gladstones was aware of the limitations of leith , especially compared with the opportunities then opening up in glasgow and in liverpool . | |
| 339 | masters | 1 | PERSON | he was named gladstone in accordance with the convention of the enslaved taking the surnames of their masters . | |
| 340 | period | 1 | PERIOD | during this period , he also sat in parliament from 1818 to 1827 . | |
| 341 | jane | 1 | PERSON | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 342 | desire | 1 | EVENT | knowing that a number of indians had been sent to the island of mauritius , a british colony in the indian ocean , as indentured labour , gladstone expressed a desire to obtain indentured labour from india for his plantations in the west indies in a letter dated 4 january 1836 to messrs gillanders , arbuthnot & co. of calcutta . | |
| 343 | election petition | 1 | ACT | in the following year , disgruntled supporters in berwick , who had expected to profit from his election , brought an election petition against him alleging bribery , treating , and accepting illegal votes . | |
| 344 | works | 1 | UNKNOWN | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 345 | repayment | 1 | ACT | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 346 | member | 1 | PERSON | member of parliament for lancaster | |
| 347 | slave compensation act | 1 | ACT | with help from his son william , gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the slavery abolition act 1833 with the slave compensation act 1837 . | |
| 348 | caledonian school | 1 | INSTITUTION | in 1792 , gladstone , william ewart and some other scots built a scottish chapel on oldham street and the caledonian school opposite it for the education of their children . | |
| 349 | life fasque house gladstone | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 350 | slavery abolition act | 1 | ACT | with help from his son william , gladstone was awarded a payment as a slave owner in the aftermath of the slavery abolition act 1833 with the slave compensation act 1837 . | |
| 351 | british india | 1 | PLACE | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 352 | leith links | 1 | PERSON | place on leith links is named in his honour as is " gladstones " public house on mill lane in leith . | |
| 353 | helen parents | 1 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 354 | sir robert peel | 1 | PERSON | in 1846 gladstone was created a baronet by the outgoing prime minister , sir robert peel . | |
| 355 | tory politician | 1 | PERSON | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 356 | james blair | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 357 | slavery abolition | 1 | EVENT | the extent of his ownership of slaves was such that after slavery was abolished , through the passage of the slavery abolition | |
| 358 | new york | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone spent a year in the united states , travelling to new york , pennsylvania , virginia and maryland to purchase wheat , maize , flax-seed , hemp , tobacco , timber , leather , turpentine and tar . | |
| 359 | plantation managers | 1 | PERSON | this was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . | |
| 360 | tory | 1 | PERSON | blake personal details born john gladstones ( 1764-12-11) 11 december 1764 leith , midlothian died 7 december 1851( 1851-12-07 ) ( aged 86 ) fasque house , kincardineshire resting place st. andrew 's chapel , kincardineshire political party tory spouse(s) jane hall ( m. 1792-1798 ) | |
| 361 | connection | 1 | SET | mrs gladstone had never made any real connection with liverpool , because of her shyness , her frequent illnesses and her involvement with her children . | |
| 362 | demerara revolt | 1 | ACT | the leader of the demerara revolt of 1823 was jack gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " success " plantation , owned by john gladstone . | |
| 363 | nelly | 1 | PERSON | john * william * helen parents * thomas gladstones ( father ) * helen ( nelly ) neilson ( mother ) | |
| 364 | joseph hall | 1 | PLACE | marriage and family in 1792 , john gladstone married jane hall , the daughter of joseph hall , a liverpool merchant . | |
| 365 | checkland | 1 | UNKNOWN | he has been described by checkland as " a strong , vigorous and overpowering man , whose life was strewn with quarrels , great and small . " memorials | |
| 366 | boys | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 367 | activities | 1 | ACTIVITY | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 368 | sons | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 369 | reverend william rawson | 1 | PERSON | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 370 | property | 1 | PROPERTY | he also invested in property , constructing a number of houses in liverpool and purchasing an estate just outside the city . | |
| 371 | birthday | 1 | GROUP | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , of fasque and balfour in the county of kincardine , died at fasque house in december 1851 , 4 days shy of his 87th birthday , and was buried at st andrew 's episcopal church at fasque . | |
| 372 | jack gladstone | 1 | PERSON | the leader of the demerara revolt of 1823 was jack gladstone , an enslaved man who worked as a cooper on the " success " plantation , owned by john gladstone . | |
| 373 | prime minister | 1 | HUMAN ROLE | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , frse ( 11 december 1764 - 7 december 1851 ) was a scottish merchant , slave owner and tory politician best known for being the father of british prime minister william ewart gladstone . | |
| 374 | city centre | 1 | PLACE | gladstone decided that he wanted to move his young family away from the city centre , and in 1813 the gladstone family finally settled at seaforth house , two years after construction had begun . | |
| 375 | servants | 1 | PERSON | gladstone proceeded to expel the majority of the newly emancipated african freedmen from his plantations and imported large numbers of indentured servants from british india as part of the indian indenture system . | |
| 376 | russia | 1 | PLACE | john gladstone 's business became very extensive , having a large trade with russia , and as sugar importers and west india merchants . | |
| 377 | operations | 1 | ACT | after sixteen years of operations , the partnership of corrie , gladstone & bradshaw was dissolved in 1801 and its business was continued by john gladstone under the name of john gladstone & company . | |
| 378 | tradition | 1 | ACT | the church of scotland had also never been to mrs gladstone 's liking because of the episcopalian tradition of the robertson family and her own strong evangelicalism . | |
| 379 | complaints | 1 | ABSENCE | the election committee upheld their complaints , and he was unseated on 19 march 1827 . | |
| 380 | politics gladstone | 1 | PERSON | politics gladstone was also interested in politics . | |
| 381 | helen neilson | 1 | PERSON | born john gladstones on king street in leith north of edinburgh , john gladstones was the eldest son of the merchant thomas gladstones , and his wife , helen neilson . | |
| 382 | slave rebellions | 1 | FORCE | born in leith , midlothian , through his commercial activities he acquired ownership over several slave plantations in the british colonies of jamaica and demerara-essequibo ; the demerara rebellion of 1823 , one of the most significant slave rebellions in the british empire , was started on one of gladstone 's plantations . | |
| 383 | justice | 1 | PROPERTY | she was the daughter of andrew robertson , a solicitor and justice of the peace and the provost of dingwall in ross-shire . | |
| 384 | cotton | 1 | MATERIAL | he made a fortune trading in corn with the united states and cotton with brazil . | |
| 385 | lowland scot | 1 | MONEY | his fellow lowland scot , james | |
| 386 | acid | 1 | ACID | in 1786 , he travelled to liverpool , manchester and london to sell his father 's corn and sulphuric acid . | |
| 387 | st peter | 1 | PLACE | on 29 april 1800 , he married anne mackenzie robertson at st peter 's parish church in liverpool . | |
| 388 | information | 1 | INFORMATION | this was a picture he had derived from information given by plantation managers , who did not communicate the routine abuse of slaves nor their miserable conditions of malnutrition , overcrowding , and overwork . | |
| 389 | slave compensation commission | 1 | INSTANCE | gladstone 's claim was the single largest of any recipient made by the slave compensation commission and he had the largest number of slaves . | |
| 390 | parsonage | 1 | STATE | in 1815 he built st thomas 's anglican church at seaforth , the rector of which , the reverend william rawson , established a school in the parsonage for educating the sons of local gentlemen , including the gladstone boys . | |
| 391 | berwick | 1 | PERSON | preceded by sir henry dashwood succeeded by marquess of blandford member of parliament for berwick upon-tweed | |
| 392 | atholl crescent | 1 | PERSON | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 393 | committees | 1 | PERSON | he made few speeches in the house of commons , but he was regarded as having done good work in committees and was known as one of the most informed mps when it came to commerce . | |
| 394 | manse | 1 | BUILDING | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 395 | robertson gladstone | 1 | PERSON | robertson gladstone ( 1805-1875 ) 4. john neilson gladstone ( 1807-1863 ) 5. william ewart gladstone ( 1809-1898 ) 6 . | |
| 396 | election committee | 1 | HUMAN GROUP | the election committee upheld their complaints , and he was unseated on 19 march 1827 . | |
| 397 | parish church | 1 | PERSON | on 29 april 1800 , he married anne mackenzie robertson at st peter 's parish church in liverpool . | |
| 398 | promises | 1 | UNKNOWN | this was done by false promises , relayed through his agents , of providing them jobs , schools and medical attention . | |
| 399 | incurables | 1 | PERSON | the family spent their winters in edinburgh at their townhouse at 11 atholl crescent in 1838 , using the wealth he had amassed from his plantations and other business ventures , john gladstone paid for several philanthropic works in his original home town of leith , including st thomas 's church , an adjacent manse , a free school for boys , a free school for girls , a " house for female incurables " , and a public rose garden . | |
| 400 | bribery | 1 | EVENT | in the following year , disgruntled supporters in berwick , who had expected to profit from his election , brought an election petition against him alleging bribery , treating , and accepting illegal votes . | |
| 401 | company | 1 | INSTITUTION | john was apprenticed to alexander ogilvy , manager of the edinburgh roperie and sailcloth company ropeworks in leith . | |
| 402 | wages | 1 | AMOUNT | however , upon arrival they were paid no wages , the repayment of their debts being deemed sufficient , and worked under conditions that continued to resemble slavery in everything except name . | |
| 403 | december leith | 1 | PERSON | ||
| 404 | lives | 1 | UNKNOWN | the appalling reality of lives on the gladstone owned plantations in demerara is well documented . | |
| 405 | west india association | 1 | INSTITUTION | slave owner gladstone acquired large sugar plantations in jamaica and demerara , and was chairman of the west india association . | |
| 406 | mill lane | 1 | PERSON | place on leith links is named in his honour as is " gladstones " public house on mill lane in leith . | |
| 407 | kincardine | 1 | UNKNOWN | sir john gladstone , 1st baronet , of fasque and balfour in the county of kincardine , died at fasque house in december 1851 , 4 days shy of his 87th birthday , and was buried at st andrew 's episcopal church at fasque . | |
| 408 | summer | 1 | PERSON | gladstone and his family left seaforth in 1830 , spending the next few years living in royal leamington spa and torquay seeking health for mrs gladstone and their daughter , helen , before taking up residence at fasque house in the summer of 1833 . |
| Categoría | Objetos |
| PERSON |
african freedmen alexander ogilvy andrew robertson anglican church anne anne mackenzie gladstone anne mackenzie robertson arbuthnot atholl crescent balfour baltic ports baronet berwick berwick upon tweed blandford member boys bradshaw british prime minister william ewart gladstone brother robert brothers business portrait chairman chapel child children church committees constituency cooper corrie daughter days shy december leith dingwall episcopal church evangelicalism father favour gentleman gentlemen george gladstone gladstone boys gladstones grain grain merchants edgar corrie helen helen jane gladstone helen neilson helen parents home farm incurables indian ocean interpreter jack gladstone jackson bradshaw james blair jane jobs john john fenton cawthorne john fenton cawthorne member john gladstone john gladstone paid john gladstones john neilson gladstone kincardineshire resting place st. andrew kingsmill kirkman finlay labour lancaster lancaster constituency leader leith links licence life born john gladstones life fasque house gladstone litherland marsh loss maize man manager marquess masters member members merchant merchant thomas gladstones messrs gillanders mill lane missionaries mother mrs gladstone neilson nelly owner gladstone parish church plantation managers politician politics gladstone radical circles rector renshaw street unitarian chapel reverend william rawson robertson robertson gladstone rose garden ross shire royal leamington spa sailcloth company ropeworks scots resident seaforth second servants sir alexander ramsay sir francis blake sir francis blake personal details born john gladstones sir henry dashwood sir john gladstone sir john gladstone bt frse gladstone sir robert peel sir thomas gladstone slaves solicitor son son william sons st thomas stafford summer supporters tar thomas thomas gladstones tories george tory tory politician whig mp sir henry brook parnell wife william william ewart william ewart gladstone william huskisson winters woodstock writers |
| PLACE |
aftermath bold street brazil british guiana british india calcutta city city centre cottages county demerara essequibo edinburgh edinburgh roperie england st mark fasque fasque house french caribbean glasgow great junction street guyana home home town house india island jamaica jane hall joseph hall kincardineshire king street largest leith liverpool london manchester maryland mauritius midlothian new york office oldham street party tory spouse s jane hall pennsylvania renshaw street residence rodney street russia scotland seaforth house st andrew st peter torquay united kingdom united states village virginia west india merchants west indies |
| ACT |
abuse accordance arrival construction convention demerara revolt disambiguation election petition franchise involvement operations plaque rejection repayment revolt slave compensation act slavery abolition act support trade trading tradition votes |
| EVENT |
abolition bribery competition corn cost death desire education english flax seed girls life napoleonic wars peace slavery abolition sympathy |
| PERIOD |
april december experiment january march partnership period september time year years |
| PROPERTY |
age disorder extent health justice majority property |
| INSTITUTION |
british east india company caledonian school company firm school slavery west india association |
| HUMAN GROUP |
army election committee family gladstone family parliament people robertson family |
| QUANTITY |
career plantation plantations slave plantations sugar plantations vacancy |
| STATE |
british empire business ventures corner family attachment independence parsonage |
| NUMBER |
acres number numbers successor |
| ESTATE |
estate fasque estate reality seaforth estate |
| AMOUNT |
claim claims reform wages |
| ABSTRACT ENTITY |
equivalent evidence seat slave compensation |
| ACTIVITY |
activities everything meeting work |
| PORTION |
recipient surname surnames |
| FORCE |
demerara rebellion militia slave rebellions |
| VALUE |
limitations passage schools |
| GROUP |
birthday couple outlook |
| INSTANCE |
emancipation payments payment slave compensation commission |
| RELATIONSHIP |
friendships marriage relationship |
| BUILDING |
manse mansion |
| CONCEPT |
presbyterianism unitarianism |
| COLLECTION |
miles wealth |
| QUALITY |
shyness success |
| RESULT |
politics turpentine |
| MONEY |
lowland scot scots |
| SYSTEM |
apprenticeship indenture system |
| CONDITION |
conditions contest |
| SEQUENCE |
colonies colony |
| RESPONSIBILITY |
ownership |
| DECISION |
decision |
| MATERIAL |
cotton |
| LOCATION |
birthplace |
| WORD |
attention |
| VEHICLE |
owner |
| ACID |
acid |
| FORM |
factors |
| DEFICIENCY |
malnutrition |
| DISPUTE |
quarrels |
| PROCESS |
election |
| SET |
connection |
| ARRANGEMENT |
business |
| SHIP |
ship |
| PLANT |
hemp |
| LIQUID |
whig |
| GAME |
commerce |
| ELEMENT |
influence |
| STRUCTURE |
overwork |
| TRUST |
religion |
| LIGHT |
wheat |
| ACTION |
debts |
| TERM |
agents |
| PICTURE |
picture |
| FUNCTION |
monopoly |
| UNIT |
provost |
| AGREEMENT |
possibilities |
| ROOM |
townhouse |
| ILLNESS |
illnesses |
| LAND |
shore |
| INFORMATION |
information |
| ABSENCE |
complaints |
| ABILITY |
letter |
| NAME |
name |
| SPEECH |
speeches |
| OPPORTUNITY |
opportunities |
| WOOD |
timber |
| HUMAN ROLE |
prime minister |